Ontario’s courts to inch toward modern age with Wi-Fi, emailed jury summonses
TORONTO — Ontario’s antiquated court system will inch toward the modern age, as the attorney general announced Wi-Fi for courthouses, jury summons via email or text and some online divorce filings.
The system remains largely a paper-based one, which has not thus far reacted quickly to adopt new — or even not-so-new — technologies, Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi said Wednesday.
“Our system is still very much a bricks and mortar system,” he said. “The most advancement we’ve seen is we’ve moved from typewriters to desktops or paper filings to faxes. That’s where we’re starting.”
The measures announced Wednesday won’t see Ontario’s courts catch up with how technology is used in every other realm of life, but they are foundational, practical steps, Naqvi said.